Visual Culture (Research)

We welcome applicants wishing to explore visual culture understood as a meeting ground between creative practices, the philosophical and the political.

• We usually accept research students into the Department of Visual Cultures on the basis of a match between your proposed research and the current research interests of the department as well as an assessment of your qualifications and suitability to undertake a research degree.

• In order to ascertain whether your project matches our research interests and meets the criteria for MPhil and PhD level study, please consult the application pack on our website which also contains a proposal form.

Research in the department is organised around thematic clusters and we welcome proposals from applicants wishing to explore visual culture within the context of one of these clusters.

The research being carried out by both staff and students involves not just the range of thematics and concerns listed here, but also a set of dynamic methodologies that span the theoretical and the practice-based and foreground exploratory and innovative modes of submission and delivery.

Research clusters

• Culture, Memory, Futurity

• Environmental Humanities and Ecologies

• Globalisation and Transcultural Practices

• Performance and Live Art

• Philosophy, Critical and Visual Theory

• Political Aesthetics

• Sexes, Genders, Genres

• Spatial Practice and Architecture

• Technologies of Image and Sound

• The Curatorial